Doesn't cause me problems

Kitchen Cat (Reply)

Mason is the cook (and occasionally muscle) of a small cat cafe called A Cat's Paw. Though a woman of few words, she's not unapproachable. Just don't try to steal from her kitchen. If you ask instead she'll probably provide, as long as the request isn't too ridiculous.

Unbeknownst to cafe patrons, Mason -- along with all her coworkers -- is under a magical curse that turns her into a cat when she leaves the cafe premises. Her cat form is an orange tabby with a crooked tail and notched ear.

The curse was in fact put upon her by her boss, a witch named Graves, to disguise her untapped magical ability by making her appear to be a cat familiar. Unfortunately, due to his own curse, Graves cannot actually bring up the subject of magic or who it is he's protecting her and her coworkers from, so all Mason knows is that she turns into a cat now when she leaves the cafe. She has no problem with it, though, since it lets her spend her mornings and evenings down the street in her grandfather's bodega. They were estranged from each other several years back, but he has no issue with the "stray" that comes to hang around his shop twice every day, so Mason is really quite disinterested in being cured.

If Mason is taught to use magic and discovers her "knack", she wields fire magic of a hot blue flame. This also breaks the transformation curse.